Criticism mountin

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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, March 25, 1992

iL, TIMES

to plead his case that the more

@ Criticism of zoning changes on
R Avenue impl d
by Trail city council 20 months
ago is mounting.

‘! Building owner Mike Mauro
returned to council Monday night

zoning has i
ly reduced the value of his build-
ing.
Also expressing concems were
a general contractor who moved
to the area and purchased a build-
ing next to Mauro’s only to be

Parents wi:

School indicated below:

School District #9 (Castlegar)
Year One Primary (Kindergarten)
Registration For September, 1992

ing to enrol their child in either the English Year One
Primary (Kindergarten) or Russian Year One (Kindergarten) for
September 1992 are asked to register their child at the elementary

Schools
Castlegar Primary
(Twin Rivers,
Castlegar Pr:
Ootischenia) mi

Day
Mon., Tues

Kinnaird Elementary Mon., Tucs
(Kinnaird Elementary
Valley Vista’

Blueberry Creek

Time
8:00 - 2:00

Date
Mar. 30, 31

8:00 - 2:00

8:00 - 11:00.
12:30 - 3:30
9:00 - 3:00

8:00 - 2:00
8:00 - 12:00

September 1992.

or other legal proof of age
Principal of your neighbourhood school

Board of School Trustees
School District #9 (Castlegar)

Parents of children who turn 5 years old between January 1, 1992 and December
31, 1992 may register their child for Primary 1 (Kindergarten) to enter school in

A parent of a child may defer the enrolment of his or her child until September
1993.
Parents are asked to bring with them their child's birth or baptismal certificate

Should you require clarification or additional information please contact the

told that he could not set up
there, and an apartment building
owner,

"We were sold a bill of goods
about the Gulch, about how you
were going to make it like a sec-
ond Italy,” Mauro said, referring
to public meetings held three
years ago to promote Gulch revi-
talization,

After the $1 million public

g on Trail council for zonin

portion of was com,
pleted, council decided to rezone
the area to promote more Pedes-
trian-oriented uses such as restau-
rants and boutiques. Existing
commercial uses such Mauro's
plumbing business are now non-
conforming and cannot be
expanded or replaced with other
similar operations,

“You didn’t tell us that if we

Housing Corporation.

City of Castlegar

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of
Castlegar intends to stop up and close to traffic, of all kinds,
that portion of 10th Avenue shown shaded in heavy black on
Schedule "A" to Highway Closure Bylaw 606.
it nhl! Mich Ant Aad Ms

ere

Upon closure, the Council of the City of Castlegar intends to
petition to the Minister of Municipal Affairs to have the said
portion of the Highway abandoned pursuant to Section 573
of the Municipal Act and to vest fee simple title to the lands
comprising same in the name of the Provincial Rental

i we wouldn't be able to
do anything with our building,”
said Mauro, “If I knew the build-
ing was going to be rezoned and I
was going to be non i

g changes

non-conforming apartment build-
ing, acknowledged that he
“wasti't paying enough atiention”
when council advertised the zon-

I would not have invested any
money in the building. I would
have left ita dump the way it
was.”

Fernando Soto, who has been a
general contractor in Swift Cur-
rent, Saskatchewan, for 14 years
since immigrating from Chile,
said when he toured the Gulch
and saw two plumbers and a con-
tractor located near a building
that was for sale, he concluded
“this is the right place for me.

"Then all of a sudden, (after
buying the building), we discover
we are in the wrong place.”

Soto said he left Chile to
escape such seemingly arbitrary
decisions by authorities.

Lino Pasqualotto, who owns a

ing ch But he req d
that council consider expanding
the permitted uses.

Mayor Sandy Santori pointed
out that council followed “due
process” in rezoning the area.
The city ran advertisements,
notified affected property own-
ers by mail, and held a public
hearing at which no complaints
were heard.

“When you don’t hear from
anyone at the public hearing, you
have to assume that no one is
opposed.” Santori said.

But the mayor added that
“nothing is written in stone.”
Council has referred the matter to
its advisory planning committee,
a group of citizen volunteers
appointed by council, for review.

Funding in place for
Jubilee Park upgrade

TRAIL TIMES

The Trail school district will
Provide $84,000 toward the
$252,000 cost of upgrading
Jubilee Park at Rossland Sec-
ondary School.

The provincial lottery fund
has been approached for a grant
equal to the school district’s
contribution. The final third of
funding is expected to be raised
through a $29,000 donation
from the Rossland Rotary Club,

CAMPBELL’S SOUP

Chicken Noodle,
Cream of
Mushroom,
Vegetable Soup
12/ 284 ml

Value Price
Assorted
24/85 g

GOLD SEAL

SuMONT ie
Gold Seal
12/219 g

Green Giant
wires

12/189 g

WESTERN FAMILY
CANNED VEGETABLES

12/341 ml - 398 ml

m& ne

ale

Effective

WESTERN FAMILY

MUSHROOMS

Pieces & Stems
12 /284 ml

HEINZ BEANS

in Molasses,
‘Tomato Sauce
& With Pork
12/398 ml

88

WESTERN FAMILY

Dairy Maid
Apple Juicei2 /1 ittre

Lunch Box Drinks
Assorted
9/ 3/250 mi

Coke & Sprite

& Ginger Ale, Reg. or Diet

A&W Root Beer, C-Plus, Orange
& Fresca. 24 /355 ml

Tomato Sauce
Western Family. 12 /398 ml

Pamper Cat Food

Asst. 24 / 184g.

Western Family

Margarinei2 /454 gr.

Delsey Tissue

12 /4 roll

Hi-Dri Towels

12 /2 roll

Western Family

Peaches Pears, or Fruit
Cocktail in Pear Juice 12 /398 ml

Aylmer Whole
Tomatoes 12 /706

Money's Sliced

a $15,000 grant from the Van-
couver Foundation, $21,000
worth of donated equipment
from the City of Rossland, and
$19,000 in volunteer labor.

The project will include the
completion of drainage work
(on which the school district
has spent more than $100,000
in recent years), resoning, and
installation of a sprinkler sys-
tem. Soccer goal posts, softball
backstops and track and field
pits will also be installed.

The school district's share
will come from its capital
reserve fund. Although the
Province has severely reduced
lottery grants, the district
received encouragement regard-
ing the field project after reduc-
ing it mostly to items relating to
user safety.

Although trustees unani-
mously endorsed the project,
several expressed: disappoint-
ment that the City of Rossland
is not making a larger contribu-
tion. They indicated discussion
of the project began on the
basis of equal contributions
from the two levels of local
government

"I am really concerned that
Rossland doesn’t see the same
value to the community in this
Project as the board does,” said
trustee Gordon Titsworth. “I
find it peculiar that, once again,
Rossland comes up short.”

Board chairman Jean Corma-
ck pointed out that Rossland
has almost no commercial tax
base and is under severe budget
restraints.

"We have tried hard for the
last 13 years to improve the
Rossland field. In these times,
33-cent dollars (the board is
only putting up a third of the
money) have to be particularly
attractive.”

In other business Monday,
the board approved bus service
Starting in September for the
HuDu Creek Road area near
Park Siding.

Parents complained last fall
that the road is dangerous for
students to walk along, particu-
larly in winter when early dark-
ness and high snow banks reduce
visibility. The board delayed a
decision on their request for ser-
vice pending a complete review
of busing policy.

Trustee Robert Cacchioni
said the start of service has
been delayed until September
because bus schedules will have
to be reworked to accommodate
the run, plus the season of
major concem is past.

HAIRLINES

Retail sale
now on
business closing
1444 Columbia Ave.,
Castlegar, B.C.

Sports
A local glance

BCJHL

The Castlegar Rebels par-
ent club, the Vernon Lakers
have a chance to make it four

i] in a row.

The Lakers, who have won

J the B.C. Junior Hockey

League title the last three-

] years, are in the final again

this year.
Vernon beat Chilliwack in

‘ six games to earn the right to

play in the final.

Bike swap

This Saturday, at Stanley
Humphries Secondary
School, the athletic depart-
ment is holding a bike swap
to raise money for school
sports.

The swap will go from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. and a variety of
bikes will be available to the
public.

Castlegar Little League
It will be a whole new ball
game for Castlegar minor

_| baseball this season.

It will be the first year that

| Castlegar will be part of the

Little League organization as

well as B.C. Minor Baseball.
Kids will now startin T-

ball and move up through the

+| Little League system. Once

they become teenagers, kids

| will play under the domain of
| B.C. minor baseball.

Formerly, all ages of ball
players in Castlegar fell under
B.C. minor baseball. The big
reason for making a switch
was competition.

Beaver Valley, Grand
Forks, and Trail all play under
Little League rules.

“There will be more com-
petition among the local
leagues,” said Doug Hickey,
the executive in charge of
coaching.

Beaver Valley and espe-

‘| cially Trail have had phenom-

enal success with their teams.
Trail has represented Canada
at the Little League World
Series more times than any
Other Canadian city.

“When we put an all-star
team [in the regional play-
offs] in June we're not
expecting to challenge Trail,”
said Hickey, explaining that
the executive wants to build a
strong organization.

Hickey, who teaches at
Stanley Humphries Sec-
ondary School, said the Little
League system helps develop
better players.

“As a teacher I’m in favor
of T-ball,” he said, of the 8-
years and under division. “It
Creates good hitting habits
and level swings.”

In T-ball, batters hit the
baseball off of a rubber stand.
But under B.C. minor base-
ball, the kids would hit pitch-
es thrown by coaches. Hickey
said that system often resulted
in the coach trying to hit the
bat rather than the batter hit-
ting the ball.

Registration is being held
tonight from 6-9 p.m. at the
Community Complex. Parents
who can’t make it will have
another chance this coming
Saturday at two locations.
Registrations will be taken
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the
complex and at Safeway.Stan-
ley Humphries tennis team
holds its first turnout today.

Barry DePaoli, the tennis

_|coach, said the team finished

second in the Interior league
last year. He said the team
may have trouble repeating
that standing this year.

“We've lost three or four
key players from last year,”
DePaoli said.

competition against other

"| teams.

‘The season will include a

2 number of exhibition games

against teams from the
kanagan and Kimberley.

Sports Dept. Jason Keenan 365-5579

Local body builders in trai

JIM ZEEBEN
Sports editor

Two Castlegar body builders
will flex their stuff at the Iron
Ore Classic body building cham-
Pionship in Prince George.

Gerry Hoodicoff and Brenda
Binnie are in intense training for
the event which is set for April
11.

It will be the first sanctioned
competition for Binnie, who has
been involved with the sport of
body building for three-years.

“I think it’s going to be a hard

Belczyk
Skiis his
last race

FERNIE (SNS) — Castlegar’s
Felix Belczyk has made his retire-
ment official.

Belczyk made the announce-
ment while waiting for a NorAm
downhill race to start in Fernie last
week. He said his last World Cup
race was in Aspen the week of
March 9 - 13.

The Castlegar native said he
had a rough last year but is happy
with the way he’s finishing his
racing career,

“It was a rough season. I
changed boots and that led to
some complications. I didn’t have
a lot of confidence, except for the
last race.

“At the end of last season it
came together a bit but I had to
come back this year and prove
that I could ski well,” said Bel-
czyk. “I was ranked poorly - 68th
at the beginning of this season.
But I’ve brought that up to 16th,
so I accomplished what I wanted.
It’s been a good year.”

Not one to rest on his laurels,
Belczyk had hoped to win the Fer-
nie NorAm and retire ranked
among the top 15 skiers in the
world, but he placed 17th in Fernie.

“I’m happy with my whole
career,” added Belczyk" “ts been
a good ten years over all. I’m 30
now, at a point where I have to
make a decision to do something
else. I can’t ski race forever.”

Belczyk plans to retum to Van-
couver and get married this sum-
mer. he said he will stay involved
in racing.

“T'll continue to work with my
sponsors and maybe when the
next Olympics come up I'll do
some television commentating.”

In his decade racing for Canada
Belezyk has had an Opportunity to
analyse the performance of the team.
He said injuries have been their

biggest problem in the past years.

See RETIRES 9A

competition,” she said while
working out at Hooter's fitness
parlour.

“Training changes everything
you're doing—from diet, to the

amount you train, to the amount
of aerobics you do.”

Binnie works as a school bus
driver and is president of CUPE
local-1298. She said training puts

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16-year veteran Gerry Hoodicoft flexes his

building competition.

ning for Iron Ore

intense demands on the body,
especially in the type of foods
they can eat.

“T've lost 17-pounds so far for
this competition,” she said. “We

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SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper

Rebels future could be on the table

Sun sports
staff

The Castlegar Rebels Annual
General Meeting has been re-sched-
uled from March 25 to April 2.

The date had to be changed as
the Kootenay International Junior
Hockey League is holding its
AGM tonight.

Representing the Rebels will be
former president Russ Rilcof, who
announced his resignation at the
end of last season. Rilcof said he
would like to stay with the team in
a less time consuming position. The

club has been, searching for a new

president but to no avail.
“We're still in the talking
stages,” Rilcof said. “We haven't

there’s no guarantee he'll be back.

Walker was the third coach of
the team last season, taking over
from assistant Kevin Koorbatoff.
The man who started the year
behind the bench, Kevin Chevel-
dave, resigned half-way through
the season after he was unable to
find work in Castlegar.

If the team can not put together

an executive, they will have to
think about skipping next season.
Without a team for next year, the
future of Junior hockey in Castle-
gar could be bleak.

“If we take a year’s leave of

get to eat 1,000 calories a day+—
if were lucky.”

The Iron Ore will be Hoodi-
coff’s fourth competition, He
was 21-years old when he started
the sport 16-years ago in Vancou-
ver.
“TI got into it because I liked
lifting weights. I liked the feel,
the look, it gave me,” he said.
“It’s an individual sport. You get
out of it what you put into it.”

Some of the qualities which
the body builders are judged on
include muscle size, symmetty,
Proportion and definition.

Hoodicoff, who’s lost 20-
pounds from training, said he
thinks he'll fare well in Prince
George.

“I don’t know who any of the
other competitors are but I think
I'll be in the top three.” ;

Spring
SWings
in at
SHSS

JASON KEENAN

Sports writer

Spring break is over, the stu-
dents are back, and the spring
season is ready to roll at Stanley
Humphries Si School

absence there will be an i
quality to it,” said Rilcof, explain-
ing that once the club dies it will
be very tough to resurrect.

PeeWees B.C. Champs

Sun sports
Staff

The PeeWee Rep hockey team
ed: tobe the gern of Castiegar

"minor hockey as they won the

B.C. championships held last
‘ in'S

talked to anyone i d in tak-
ing over the president’s position
despite all the support they would
be given.”

Uncertainty also looms in sev-
eral other key positions, including
team management.

Near the end of last season
general manager Don Joice sug-
gested he might not be back next
year. However, Joice has yet to
confirm his official standing with
the club. Another big question
mark is at the head coaching posi-
tion. Gord Walker finished the sea-
son with the team but he has said

After an unsteady start which
saw the reps lose two of their first
three games, Castlegar pulled
together to win their remaining
round-robin games. Their record
of four wins and two losses was
good enough to get them to the
final against Sicamous, which
they won 3-1.

“We won it as a team,” said
coach John Horcoff, whose son
Shawn scored 27 of the club’s 50
goals at the tourney. “We had a cou-
ple of kids who had a great week
but everyone played excellent.”

Fifth year for Dirty Thirty tourney

Jim Young tourney will again raise money for Red Cross

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Jim Zeeben

Sun sports

staff

One of the classiest guys to
ever call Castlegar home was
back in town last week.

Jim Young, the tougher-than-
nails ex-CFLer, lived in Castle-
gar when he took his first
general manager job at the Sand-
man Inn.

Young’s career moved on, and
he found himself back in foot-
ball. Rather than making a mark
on the field he’s been involved
in the business of running the
B.C. Lions.

But he never forgot Castlegar
and for the past five years he has
lent his name to a celebrity golf
tournament which has raised
more than $50,000 for the Red
Cross over the last four years

Young was in Castlegar to
meet with organizers of the tour-
ney.

“They're pros,” Young said of
the committee which includes
Stosh Uchida, Alec Birukow, Pat
Metge, and Karl Henne.
“They've looked after it beauti-
fully.”

The fifth annual Jim Young
Celebrity Golf Tournament is
Officially set for July 16 at the
Castlegar golf course.

BCTV sportscaster John
McKeachie will once again
emcee the banquet.

Organizers hope to keep the
event to a maximum of 27
teams. It will remain a five-man
scramble with one celebrity on
each team.

Castlegar dropped its first
game 8-7 to Hollyburn of Van-
couver. The reps won their next
match 14-3 against- Howe Sound
before losing to Burm’s Lake 7-4.

“We dug ourselves into a hole
by losing two of three games,”
said Horcoff. “We needed a break
and we got it.”

Along with the coach’s son,
prominent goal scorers were
David Pucci and Grady Moore.

“Over the course of the tourna-
ment every member of the team
ended up getting points,” said the
coach.

Goaltender Justin Evin was
outstanding in net. In the final
game, Evin shut-out Sicamous
until they finally beat him with
four minutes to go in the third.

Bantams Season ends

The Castlegar Bantam reps fin-
ished third at the Bantam AA
Provincial tournament held last
week in Salmon Am.

After losing to Westside 5-4 on
Thursday, Castlegar beat Kitimat
9-4 on Friday to take the bronze.

‘The host team, Salmon Arm fin-
ished first by beating Westside 6-5

ip y .
“We're looking for things to
get running soon,” said Doug
Hickey, the athletic director’ at
Stanley Humphries. The school
will be competing in tennis, golf,
and girls soccer this spring.

Hickey said the golf team
should be really competitive this
season. “Hopefully, they'll pull
together as a team this year.”
Last year, the team won the West
Kootenay league, but came up
short at the Kootenays final.

Bill Lunn, the teacher respon-
sible for the golf team, said the
team’s inexperience dealing with
the final’s pressure kept them
from doing better at last year’s
Kootenays.

If all goes well this year, Lunn
said, Stanley Humphries has “a
better than fifty-per-cent chance
of going to the provincials.”

Lunn said that the two or

three players from last year’s
team would give the 1992 team
the experience needed to deal
with the final’s pressure. “If they
can get out of the region,” Lunn
added, “they’ll do well this
year.”
During the next two weeks,
the golf team’ will be holding
three practice matches against
the Trail and Nelson teams. The
teams will meet this Thursday
See SPRING

Brenda Binnie.gets pumped up. Binnie's training for
the Iron Ore bodybuilding contest.

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper